Cheryl Snell's Blog, page 56
September 27, 2010
Rescuing Ranu, gratis
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Here is the entire novel, right at your fingertips. If you want a hard copy ( a souvenir, according to a new definition of physical books)click this. Amazon will hook you up.
Here is the entire novel, right at your fingertips. If you want a hard copy ( a souvenir, according to a new definition of physical books)click this. Amazon will hook you up.
September 23, 2010
September 21, 2010
September 19, 2010
Thoughts on Big Sid's Vincati
Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime is a memoir that swerves through the compelling emotional landscape of a particular father and son whose relationship is altered through a motorcycle. That machine is a Vincati, half British Vincent and half Italian Ducati.
The narrative tells how the father, Big Sid, one of the best motorcycle tuners in the world, and his son Matthew, a university literature professor, close the distance between them over a proj...
The narrative tells how the father, Big Sid, one of the best motorcycle tuners in the world, and his son Matthew, a university literature professor, close the distance between them over a proj...
Book Promotion: What Not to Do
• Google "writing forums" and set up profiles at as many of these as you can. Don't worry if the focus is on different genres from yours –- you're giving them a chance to broaden their tastes, the way you do when you send your collection of stories to publishers who do not publish story collections.
• See where they ask for "occupation" in your profile? They WANT you to promote yourself, so lie a little. Your sister, for one, really DOES agree that your three published poems and vanity press n...
• See where they ask for "occupation" in your profile? They WANT you to promote yourself, so lie a little. Your sister, for one, really DOES agree that your three published poems and vanity press n...
September 18, 2010
Forgetting
When I'm standing in front of the icebox I don't know whether I came to put something in it or take something out. At the mailbox, I can't remember if I wanted to put a letter in or get the mail. These days I don't think very well. It confuses me, all this forgetting.
Mother reads the yellowed letter in a singsong voice, the one she uses when she does not comprehend the words. I wonder how she can recognize the letters without attaching meaning.
This morning, she had been surprised to find he...
Mother reads the yellowed letter in a singsong voice, the one she uses when she does not comprehend the words. I wonder how she can recognize the letters without attaching meaning.
This morning, she had been surprised to find he...
September 17, 2010
Book Review
We're delighted to be able to present a guest post by James Mowry today. Be sure to click the link at the end of this review for more of his work.
Mystery Mobile: "The Case of the Missing Books" by Ian Sansom
The back copy on Ian Sansom's "mystery" novel, "The Case of the
Missing Books," claims that its protagonist, Israel Armstrong, is "one
of literature's most unlikely detectives." The sneer quotes here are
intentional, though not meant to be especially sneering – consider,
instead, that they may...
Mystery Mobile: "The Case of the Missing Books" by Ian Sansom
The back copy on Ian Sansom's "mystery" novel, "The Case of the
Missing Books," claims that its protagonist, Israel Armstrong, is "one
of literature's most unlikely detectives." The sneer quotes here are
intentional, though not meant to be especially sneering – consider,
instead, that they may...
